Abraham vehojst



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM VEHON, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

METHOD OF ORNAMENTING CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,062, dated May 28, 1889.

Application filed October 12, 1888. Serial No. 287,941. (Specimens) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM VEHON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Ornamentation of Cloth, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in ornamentation of cloth.

The object of the present invention is to diminish the cost of producing desk-edging and render it possible to make the same from cloth.

Heretofore leather has been employed in the manufacture of desk-edgin g, and this material is pasted upon a zinc plate and after becoming dry is given a gold, silver, or other metallic coating. The zinc plate is then passed under a roller and the leather is given the desired figure 0r ornamentation. The above method is expensive, owing to the employment of the leather, and attempts have been made to ornament cloth by pasting it to a zinc plate and treating it as above described; but it was discovered that the metallic coating would not stick to the cloth, but would peel oif.

The invention consists in interposing between the zinc plate a layer of some soft inelastic substance-such as wood pulp-whereby the superfluous paste employed in fixing the cloth to the zinc will be absorbed and the cloth be adapted to receive and retain a. metallic coating.

In the ornamentation of cloth for deskedging a zinc plate is employed, which is cov* ered by a layer of some substance possessing softness and inelasticity-su ch as wood pulpand then the material designed to be ornamented, preferably bookbinders cloth, which is more durable than leather, is pasted to the layer of wood pulp and allowed to dry, the wood pulp absorbing any superfluous paste, which is essential to the retention of a metallic coating that is afterward to be applied. After sufficient drying a coating of gold, silver, or some other metal is applied to the surface of the cloth, and the whole is then passed under a roller, which impresses the desired figure upon the cloth.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that desk-edging produced in accordance with this invention is inexpensive and possesses great durability.

Having described the invention, I claim- The herein-described improvement in the method of ornamenting material for deskedging, consisting in the employment of cloth and in interposing between and pasting to the same and the plate a layer of some soft inelastic material-such as wood pulpwhereby the cloth is adapted to receive an impression of a figure or ornamentation, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ABRAHAM VEHON.

\V itn esses:

ISADORE SAMUELs, JOSEPH KLEIN. 

